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[Its_Me_Jackie]

Thank you all! It's good to be here!

 

[Adora]

How come it took you guys so long to get diagnosed?

just slipped underneath the radar,and plus others factors can be considered like having parents who didn’t pay attention and also it can be harder to notice symptoms in some girls,but yeah I went years without knowing and didn’t find out until I was 31,plus i also been diagnosed with complex ptsd and anxiety due to growing up in a abusive household.

 

[SusanLR]

How come it took you guys so long to get diagnosed?

Same as others replied above.
I never heard of the word until about 3 yrs. ago. I grew up in a time you would have had to been very obviously autistic to even get anyone to notice in school.
Parents didn't pay any attention as long as I did well
in the learning department. I was an only child also,
no siblings for comparison.

It wasn't until I was 13 and started having anxiety disorder
that the school social worker called my Mom in for a discussion, telling her she felt I needed a psych eval
due to not being social with my peers.
That fell on deaf ears.
Fast forward through my life...
I was able to mask most of my quirky ways and had a
good career where I worked mainly to myself.
I was diagnosed with anxiety/panic disorder in my 30's when panic attacks sent me to the hospital.
Only after losing my parents, did I myself seek help
for not being able to adjust being on my own, a
psychologist suggested testing for Aspergers.

 

[Adora]

I grew up in a time you would have had to been very obviously autistic to even get anyone to notice in school.

yeah that’s another factor too,I was born in the 80s and during that time they only noticed the more obvious cases,but also there wasn’t much known about girls who were on the spectrum and my psychologist said that’s probably why I fell through the cracks for so many years.

 

[Nightingale121]

Welcome, @Its_Me_Jackie!

I absolutely love finding out how things are made!

I'll sometimes even take apart stuff and then try to figure out what each little piece does, and then i'll go and try and put it all back together.

It's almost like doing a puzzle the bigger the item you have the harder it becomes, but the smaller item that you have the easier it's to do.(At least for me anyways)

Yes, it's quite interesting to find out how things are made.
There's a great TV show for children here that often includes videos showing and explaining how things are made or how specific processes work. I really loved it as a child and it's still nice to watch now as an adult.

I'm often afraid that I could break something, so it won't work anymore after I took it apart and tried to put it back together. Therefore, I only take apart things that aren't too complex or things that are supposed to be thrown away, so it won't matter anymore if I break them.
Plus, my motor skills aren't the best, so I'm not good at this, especially when it comes to small items, and can get frustrated instead of enjoying the learning process.

So watching the TV show helps a bit with this problem as well...
This way I can examine things from the inside and watch the process without being anxious to break something or get frustrated by my lack of fine motor skills.